Install functions reference gentoo development guide. Every init script that can be configured has a file in this directory. Bandwidth analyzer pack bap is designed to help you better understand your network, plan for various contingencies, and. I dont like to install everything under one directory. The quickpkg application included in portage takes one or more dependency atoms or package sets and creates binary packages for all installed packages that match that atom. Install a directory that will be nonempty when the package is merged.
An unofficial gentoo overlay that enables installation of canonicals snappy backbone. But there are some software packages that i would prefer to install in a different directory tree. Tip originally blogged by jeremy olexa see also etc portage the primary configuration directory for portage, gentoo s package manager. All three methods will create a binary package in the directory pointed to by the pkgdir variable which defaults to varcachebinpkgs. Directory description by default portage installs all files on the current filesystem to. If the broken portage root directory is mounted at mntgentoo, the command. Most services that can be controlled should install a script here.
I noticed emerge installed tomcat and java to opt but it put emacs in usrbin. The distdir variable defines the location where portage will store the downloaded source code archives. This distribution is no doubt hard to install and maintain. Future plans include to move usrportage also because who needs. Portage includes many commands for repository and package management, the primary of which is the emerge command the most common questions about portage and the emerge command are handled in the portage faq. The previously mentioned configuration files cannot be stored elsewhere portage will always look for those configuration files at those exact locations. Mount portage s tmpdir to tmpfs by adding the following to the systems etcfstab config file. Gentoo forums view topic installing portage on other. It functions as the heart of gentoo based operating systems. Well at least this is what many people think of gentoo. Live environments and stage archives can be downloaded using the links below. Manually download a copy of a recent portage release tarball.
Sakakis efi install guideinstalling the gentoo stage 3 files. So my idea was, why do not make the download folder as tmpfs folder. Portage should be able to install even though the gentoo developers. Now, when you invoke an ebuild to install a particular. The much bigger problem is that gentoo doesnt really support the mips architecture, so theres no mips arch in portage, so youll have to make or modify existing ebuilds to get a workable system. This is why if vartmp is a tmpfs it must be of size similar to that of vartmp portage if a amount of system ram is to be used in this way. Gentoo is a trademark of the gentoo foundation, inc. Using source mirrors the mirrors listed on this page contain installation files such as livecds, gentoo ebuild repository snapshots as well as distfiles the actual program code for our packages. Notice that it is possible to reference several files in etc portage env for each package. However, portage uses many other locations for various purposes. The gentoo linux distribution uses simple textfiles to describe how software should be installed and configured. Setting installation prefix gentoo forums view topic.
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